On Saturday, November 05, 2011 17:16:30 Olaf van der Spek wrote:
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Andrey Semashev
Honestly, can you give me a single reason why e.g. scoped_array can't be initialized with NULL? And why are you so eager to break the interface?
Code simplicity
// typedef boost::shared_array<unsigned char> shared_data; 1. shared_data d0(256); 2. BOOST_AUTO(d1, make_shared_data(256)); 3. auto d2 = make_shared_data(256);
2 is much more verbose than 1, 3 is also more verbose than 1
I'd love to not break (NULL) and (0), but I'd also love to have simple code.
Sometimes less keystrokes does not produce a cleaner code. I mean, in the (1) case I would expect shared_data to be a container or some custom class. Last thing I would expect it to be is a pointer.